Credit card thieves installing card skimmers in gas stations!

"Wave of recent bank-card skimming incidents demonstrate how sophisticated the scam has become. Criminals hid bank card-skimming devices inside gas pumps — in at least one case, even completely replacing the front panel of a pump — in a recent wave of attacks that demonstrate a more sophisticated, insidious method of stealing money from unsuspecting victims filling up their gas tanks. Some 180 gas stations in Utah, from Salt Lake City to Provo, were reportedly found with these skimming devices sitting inside the gas pumps. The scam was first discovered when a California bank's fraud department discovered that multiple bank card victims reporting problems had all used the same gas pump at a 7-Eleven store in Utah."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/23/2236254/Criminals-Hide-Payment-Card-Skimmers-In-Gas-Pumps?art_pos=15

Usually I use the same gas stations, but if thieves are replacing entire front panels, how are you supposed to notice?

Utah legislature considering administrative subpoenas for subscriber info

"The Utah State Legislature is considering a bill granting the Attorney General's Office the ability to demand customer information from Internet or cell phone companies via an administrative subpoena, with no judicial review (text of the HB150). This represents an expansion of a law passed last year, which granted that ability when 'it is suspected that a child-sex crime has been committed.' Since becoming law, last year's bill has led to more than one non-judicial request per day for subscriber information. Pete Ashdown, owner of a local ISP and 2006 candidate for the US Senate, has discussed his position and the effects of this bill." (emphasis mine)

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24/025225/Utah-Considers-Warrantless-Internet-Subpoenas?art_pos=5


BUT WON'T PEOPLE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?! You're going to have to show me some pretty solid data that there's more than one child-sex crime happening per day. They're fishing, and they're using administrative subpoenas to do it. There is no way that judges should be out of the loop on this. I can see an administrative subpoena for an Amber Alert situation, but that subpoena should immediately go to a judge for review as soon as one is available. This sucks.